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July 25, 2019
Construction Workers

Hidden in Plain Sight

By Cathy Albisa, Pathways to Freedom
ATLANTA

How low wages, brutal working conditions, and laws hostile to organizing, make Atlanta and surrounding areas ripe for labor trafficking. Relative to Minneapolis, working conditions in Atlanta appear generally worse. Minnesota at least has state departments mandated with enforcing wage and workplace safety laws; Georgia does not.

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Workers are organizing through unions and other organizations to improve their lives. Union representation provides a voice on the job and the opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions.

Update: Minneapolis school custodians vote to join SEIU 284

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Iowa workers choose to stay union

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Labor still lacks coordinated approach to organizing the South

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